A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.